howard i was the sounds, i'm just so dangerous, my darling. and he shall 5 the song coolio global fame and also a grammy earlier this year with paradise here, 1000000000 clicks on with that said from me and the news team coming up next. the doc, film, boot tom, of the dictatorship of happiness. i've got office in berlin, me on the team, mexico project with nico is in germany to learn german pollution pinnacle. why not learn with him

online, on your mobile and free chef. t w's, e learning course, nico speak? ah, a friday night in tim pu, in the sleepy capital of this very religious country. no. vincent jury and his friends are about to perform a concert. but it's far from traditional the band plays thrash metal. a style of music rarely found in baton even under ground. but these rockers are no rebels. here. the musicians are known for writing a song with a message that for a metal band is unusual. as any of happiness, a linux will catch many people's attention that you know,

the way we can be happy with the very little we have. we have to be content with one. we haven't all and the group practices, what they preach in baton. it's difficult to find more musical instruments, let alone a record labels, but they managed to shoot a professional music video for their hit track happiness. ah ah what i was wondering if we get a chance to rule europe or america to play love to do that. to explain and a nice friend and message, i'm happy to. this message does not come out of the blue. in 1972,

the brittany's king introduced the idea of a happiness index and troubled by the problems he saw affecting other developing countries focused on economic growth. he decided to prioritize his country's gross national happiness over its gross domestic product. roughly the size of switzerland hooton's population is just 800000 people, nestled in the himalayas between india and china, the 2 most populous nations on earth. it's geography kept futon isolated from the rest of the world for years, largely rural and we have no major resources apart from hydro. electric power futon is still one of the world's poorest countries, but they believe they are on the right track. just over a decade ago, the government made gross national happiness, official policy, her visits ultimately without peace, security,

and happiness. we have nothing. that is the essence of the philosophy of gross national happiness. she visited in 2000 to night, the king even wrote gross national happiness into towns constitution. emphasis was placed on the preservation of nature and organic farming. grace is a young entrepreneur. she recently opened an organic restaurant in the capitol. more important if you have a rich health and you can have a happy life in these very isolated country with its ancestral buddhist traditions . tv and internet only made their appearance in 1999 mobile phones became commonplace just a decade ago. even today, few images of newton exist to bring a camera into the country. you must 1st prove your intentions, are good. although baton is gradually opening up to tourism and western influence. it's traditional culture remain strong in front of my parents and families does

this. but in front of my friends, i feel more go home to relate, where whatever i like people abound, not only by tradition but also by state wide bands in baton. the sale of tobacco is illegal. so sellers take a big risk. we have to pay the fire to take on, make sure the sale of alcohol is also prohibited one day a week is was it was a via y z a here happiness has its limits set by the state. and it's built on the backs of indian workers toiling on unsafe construction sites were poor. we don't work. we stock a profoundly buddhist country who turn posts 10000 temples and monasteries as well as places of prayer. they also serve as last chance schools for delinquents. if we

go to an extent of that, it could be a prison, it may be a death also for monastery. futon is a country of contrasts and contradictions could gross national happiness. simply mask the nation structural poverty. maggie mil, what's gross national happiness umbrella. i've no idea we embark on an unusual journey through this self styled kingdom of happiness. 2 weeks before november concert in tim pooh. we met him at the airport in paro, the musician showed us around as part of his day job. oh, oh, thank you. legacy again. okay. rocker by night to a guide by day. like any civil servant in baton. no vin is required to wear a go the traditional local costume equivalent to the scottish kilt. so we have to

follow the program. this lumina here, changes. no, we can do some changes, but it needs to be informed her like 2 days before. oh, i don't know to go goes well. the welcome is warm, but the itinerary is set in baton. it's impossible to travel freely. welcome to the time, oh, the trip into the capitol. tim poo takes an hour on route. we made keenly aware of who's running the country. pictures of the king and queen grace every street corner alone or with their son. the royal couple are on the present and truly revered by their subjects. the image of a living, demi god, carefully maintained by the government. one of the king's last filmed appearances, dates back to october, 2011. on that day jig make his saw

introduced to the people their future queen his wife jetson pima, a 21 year old commoner for the occasion. 50000 boot and ease gathered in the hope of getting close to the royal couple. bismark didn't one. please remain seated. how are you old? i'm really glad you're here today to man. i'm very happy to see you today. i mean, the sovereign presents himself as a man of the people, but rarely speaks to the press. the following exchange is one of the few he's had with journalists since he came to power. are you married? no, i this with but within the country, we're going to travel to all the districts to get to meet the people. and i must thank the people for all day a good mission installation. thank you. with his subject,

say they appreciate their king's warmth. unkindness being mules majesty in the king helps and advisors his people. he even lets them discover things. they didn't know he's truly benevolently an extraordinary chasm. play you human with people's enthusiasm, can also be seen in the photoshop surround tim who, along with representations of the buddha's lamas and other spiritual leaders, photos of the glamorous couple are abundant photos of the smiling monarch's mask. a less rosy reality, especially for the press, local media is almost non existent, and no criticism of the government is tolerated. as for foreign journalists like us, there are restrictions. it took us 2 months to get a visa, our presence is tolerated, but there is no question of filming anything that could harm the country's image.

our activities here are closely controlled and monitored. after leaving the capital, we must stop at a checkpoint. no, vincent jury, our rocca guide needs to get how visa stamped upon arrival in each major city. if you want us better, 7 for one, our pre set schedule must be followed to the letter in baton. improvisation is not allowed. a few kilometers on. there's another check point yet another stamp survey role is for the safety of the guest. actually it's for the safety of the guest and the people here. they have the record of the vehicle. so on whichever route they are, so that if they have to so she had to have the location. okay. it's a well rehearsed explanation, these constant supervision and non optional to

a guide, a part of the travel as package $250.00 per day, including hotel and meals, included in the price is a 65 dollar tax, which finances boot, unease, health and education services during our guided tour, the government plan to visit to a primary school. oh, i hear the children learn about happiness from a very young age. the schools had mistress jokey dooper consistently applies the concept of gross national happiness. oh you say good morning. ha, ha, good to, you know, the lucy has them go minded, go, you lapse of what they give me a. you'll have to wait. you know, and again on did it have a gamble. my truck in the la loved eddy looked at the getting our

dog logged on the tag. you got me logged on the logo didn't know god was made thought to see trees. flowers considerable were last year. i thought of his only get delegated. i babble. gosh aguilar. oh, okay. metal longer. ah, hello champ, warm jordan lou, she damage to this little guy the school for beads picking flowers, but encourages the children to plant seeds, especially for the fruits and vegetables that will end up on their plates at school is, shall, has to plant a vegetable and must identify what dredged if they had planted and when did they plant and they need to observe. people may say we are in the town. we don't we leave in the flat. we don't have garden. there is no space. but then this is then example for a does that no matter where you live, there is a, if there is a place that is of the pupils also learn not to simply throw things away.

everything that can be recycled is collected behind the school and sold to specialized companies. this is how we are trying to dig, dismisses who, you know, asking to learn to manage their own lease. so this must be an empty beer bottle that they have seen on the way to school. so they pick up that and their deposit tier and easter like if they have ways at home, they can bring and they deposited this waste will be recycled in india. the money earned is used to buy school supplies and water filters for the school return is one of the few developing countries where education and health care a free for all. something made possible thanks to wealthy tourists who spend their earnings in baton.

tourists weren't allowed to visit baton until 1974 to day just under 300000 of them are allowed to come cheer and admire the country's rich cultural heritage ah, among the must see sights he's the great buddha to denmark on a hill overlooking the capital the buddha is over 50 meters, tall and flanked by dozens of gilded statues. but brutal names to develop more than cultural tourism. during our journey well off the beaten path, our guides take us to admire the country's incredible nature lush forests. as far as the i can see on inhabited mountain regions and rivers untouched by pollution, for hundreds of kilometers the boot and the state is setting its sites on controlled green tourism.

we're in one of the countries, 10 national parks that lie on the border with india ever. ever. funny. i think that movie captain sit up is a ranger at the royal manor national park. he and his subordinate shakuma are the only men in uniform we meet during our stay. who town has few soldiers and relies on neighboring india, france defense. the ranges role is to protect the local flora and fauna. it's a crucial mission as returns constitution states that at least 60 percent of its territory must be covered with forest. and baton has exceeded that target for several years now. as a result, it's the only country that produces more oxygen than carbon dioxide. in other words,

it's the greenest country on the planet. this nature preserve posts, an incredible diversity of foreigner. hundreds of species of butterflies, water, buffalo, and antelope even endangered species like lizards and elephants. now the country is developing high end tourist packages in the hills of tim poo. a luxury hotel has just opened with room starting at $1200.00 euros per night. that's a small fortune in a country where the average wage is less than 7 euros a day. panoramic terraces, exotic wood decor and furniture, sweet, so villas from 70 to 300 square meters and heated indoor pools. this is a far cry from mass tourism. the hotels numerous employees are busy all day long, yet there are few guests on this day. only one

wealthy russian couple is vacationing in this spectacular place. and we've been expressly asked not to disturb them. some entrepreneurs have discovered how to profit from this tourist. heaven fundamentally tell them what grace is just 26 years old, but she's already a successful business woman. she's also a pioneer in this very conservative society, despite encountering obstacles as a woman, she managed to open her own restaurant 2 years ago. she serves up exclusively organic food to meet the demands of both the locals and foreign tourists. actually nowadays people really care about their health. so it's more important if you have a rich health, then you can have a happy life. grace, his life hasn't always been happy or easy. now a single mother of 2,

she was married to a violent man for years. grace had the courage to divorce him despite the fact that this is heavily frowned upon in baton. now she presents her story on the walls of her restaurant 3 years ago while working as a to a guide, she met a rich couple from singapore who took her under their wing. they paid for her training in singapore and helped her fulfill her dream. after returning home, she opened her own restaurant and then let's get to the mid disguise as a like, lot in my life this i like that. today she supports her entire family. the 2 waitresses in her restaurant on her sister's home in a couple wonderful things. and isn't as austin, it's a success story. she's proud to tell. to run a business to get a handle, a case to be a head on the family is an example for someone else for you. and you've been

especially for young generation where we can show them like you can do editing, being a young and urban and being a single mom. so i think i came back ah, to show an example for everyone else and inspiring story, but still a rare one here yet. and then okay, this is the rice when it comes to sourcing fresh produce, grace mainly relies on her mother. she lives a few kilometers away from the capital in the mountains. ah 60 year old charing plants, rice, fruit, and vegetables and leaves in this small traditional house on the hillside. here time seems to have stood still. all the work is done by hand or with the help of animals. hoses. one much,

one boy. in his ha, ha ha, ha, ha ha. grace regularly comes here for supplies. for her, the lack of machinery isn't a problem. quite the contrary. we prefer animals because the dimensions, you know, like, uh, it makes people more lazy. we, i knew i had to move it on us. so i think like you can use and i did, did not do a minimum. it takes a lot of energy and a good dose of patience. unlike me, scenes oxen, sometimes moody, especially on camera, is oh, oh, really lonely. i'm gonna need, you know, again, i know

it's very difficult because you have to know how to lay go. they have to listen to you, so you have some technic. how to blow the cows and all. so it's better like if you don't know that it's very dangerous because how can kill you? once plowed, the land is cultivated on terraces, the work is demanding and the yield is small. grace and her mother weed. these rice fields by hand for grace. it's a small price to pay for quality. it's all organic because we don't use the chemical fertilizers like that, but since we use only a cold unk know that way we have like lot of how over here 20 years ago baton was still extremely isolated. people had neither tv nor telephones back. then grace's way of life would have been unthinkable. i took of it on my day, we received no education and had to do manual labor. there are more opportunities

for your generation, thanks to education and languages on i. and you can do whatever you right over there today. thanks to the kings generosity every once civilized and de la la la, i'm proud of you. grace says she's happy a happiness she attributes partly to the king. so i think o king, this is like the concert with the happiness, what not with the products. so i think this is also the happiness that with what we get from that as a to got to remember school in the boonies way of life is far removed. from that of western style, consumerism, avalanche, a store, it's a system without fierce competition in ideally, both buyers and sellers always get a good deal when it comes store like mcdonald game, see i thing like it's not like go to, you know, like it's not that hide in it, because our i heard something our like our get f c like the index a chicken you know, to make it a bigger safe. so that it's more effective in our health. so i think that thing is

not good for other health. in baton, 80 percent of farmers have never used pesticides, their crops are organic and they produce enough fruit and vegetables that the country is now almost self sufficient. however, the farmer's standard of living remains quite low. cheering doesn't receive a pension, and most of her crops are for her own personal consumption. so the money she gets from her daughter supplements her income and she don't. i don't know if i buy in a city, then it's more than that. it will be more expensive, but since she is using on her energy and it's a love, you know, like that she is giving your love, you know, with a vegetable, fuller basket. and i give her money. this is what i on, in a city money. and what is this is she on in the village of history? so this is exceeded by the system between mom and her daughter. so i think like,

i give it like them because i, i have a response of a do you know, like being a mom. i have to get her with her and oh, so that this is what we do. usually miss is ha, ha, ha, ha. thank you. couldn't cesar more than other places i was young and you more than that other end of it? i always invest all my helping one, another simplicity connection to nature. it's the very definition of happiness put forward by the authorities in their g and h concept. however, some formulated this theory of happiness long before the buddha needs government. namely, the monks perfect happiness, all nirvana is what the country's roughly 100000 monks seek to achieve. in baton, one out of every 7 residence retreats to a monastery at least once in their life for

a few months or even years. many monasteries also serve as detox or rehab centers for delinquents. it's 4 30 in the morning and the day is already beginning at the low drag cartoon monastery in central baton. 3 3 3 3 0, each morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in in wyoming yet up. it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st and then who drove it to do with a lieutenant some of those who joined us, a former drug addicts to alcoholics and troubled soldier williams. julian and i, they have changed a lot out, a lot of funding. they suffer a lot in the 1st few months because of their addictions and bad habit. going to

renew mozilla, but then they change and become ordinary monks. it don't, don't you to bullshit you to some, even after that, who's on their body as they used to be gang members and others who got to do ross and thomas museum in this was the case for 28 year old senior. he arrived here a little over a year ago and had to quickly get accustomed to the rhythm of the monastery monday to saturday. if i'm at 430 during the day, 4 to 5, we have professional the says that to set yourself before he began studying theology, cynthia was inter girls, alcohol, drugs, and straight fights. is improving my family dis, me and joseph in my family members. this i got one person to smuggle. okay. mark on that a percentage overton ma ha. carla. to protect

a day as he is supposed to ward off. bad luck senior isn't the only monk with a check had passed. he and nov in our rock. a guide have a shared history here. no been visit cynthia to talk about it were some of the argument was who should really get the 2 young men have only kept a few photos of their former lives back then senior and nerve in spent their days hanging out in the streets of the capital with their friends at an hour or 2000 per didn't keith let him only hold and i used to smoke regional miss morgan ball to buy drugs and go binge drinking. cynthia would often rob people in his neighbourhood. were you fight industries was off to us. i'm done, so i'm to him, it happens is my collision nice to have collision correctional court thoughts?

and after becoming monkeys totally is like a new life. no. i at a wrong leisure. no, i did many bad things. so now because mom is kind of a beauty tradition now, because they're all sins, they're all but i talk and in a one which is a good thing because i did, and i was you, good. so i want to change. so because of then i'm a change me. no, no vin could have taken the wrong path to. yet if we go to an extent of that, it could be a prison. it may be a death also, or a monastery or monastery to become a monk. if someone realizes this, but this is a very, very rare case that someone realizes and really gets committed to become a monk. i just, it, is it here by law boss to another. do fastly that i had as you went through your life, was under some all calm and let in men capricious. ah,

in bruton monasteries offer an alternative to prison. but one that requires sacrifice. cynthia is starting his 2nd year here in his cell. he spends most of his time reading sacred texts up to 10 hours a day. this life of self discipline is far removed from his old wild ways. still he seems fulfilled. effing his means to peace of mind. you can have nothing and you can be x to be happy because everything dental here, if you have the in early order, the you are happy really, if pres blessings, but also in a contemplation filled the days in the monastery. sometimes in quite surprising ways. every week, cynthia and the others compete in a unique form of debating his reason illusory. yes. you know, it's nature to miss, you know, i know the minds nature,

but it's metaphysical noodle. how about synchron in the same way? my mother, with the more experienced monks begin the debates, the objective to win over the others with convincing arguments. when a monk thinks he's found an irrefutable argument, he slaps his hands together. the subject doesn't really matter. the most important thing is the discussion itself and having some fun. oh, is a white horse really white? oh, good guy. yes. yes. you know, a white horse isn't white, it's a living being good. did i want to live or to ha white or his horse? or for a white glove the do you wanna get robin? don't to prove that either the horse is the white one you might not know the white horse with another of the monks recreational activities in the

weekly outing. every sunday the monasteries residents go into town. though there is no question of cynthia and his friends are coming to the temptations of the straits ah. with the money they collected the previous day, the monks can treat themselves to a meal a strictly vegetarian one. 0, oh oh. oh my, i'm so glad. les glaucoma becomes legal friendship. you eat meat? no way we don't, don't don't know each and every these are. they are our parents. there haven't been even single b who haven't been betters. so in a way we can, we are eating our balanced, meet so it's is a mix in actually and then the problem is that up at the prison, we cannot remember them being of being our bands. and you really believe in reincarnation. of course of ours, everybody is in got it. you are you good me. my father mother was for you the best

seemed to be reincarnated for the next life ins. a monk, if it's possible, a return in a country, it doesn't matter what it in but done is far the monasteries, not to j. no it's, it's actually is a paradise is i don't a very we say i don't very result a very just because we are full of since we are looking on the scene this business as normal this but actually some to pi oh yeah, we're going to look at all, no vin, our guide accompany cynthia on his way back to the monastery. the reunion of the 2 former troublemakers is over and they'll return to their every day lives. look a little very little with to day, cynthia seems to have found the pathway to happiness bo. he'll need to train for 9

more years to become an ordained monk. back in tim pooh! we visit grace the entrepreneur. she lives in a small 3 room apartment with her 2 children and 2 sisters. oh, really a north quickly underneath the list, be at the paling most when we have to really tired. so in a month we used to go out with a friends and we the siblings that we can enjoy a moment. so he not like, not exactly party, but it's a place where we can relax and enjoy some music. ha, 8. yeah, no. okay. i'm on a home this evening. grace takes her 2 sisters with her as the head of a company and head of the family. grace is one of the few car owners in baton. it's a privilege here. so ladies, let's have fun tonight. yeah,

i, so i'm gonna walk somewhere else here. baton has just a handful of bars where young people can meet. grace's favorite is the tim poo club, a party spot for the capitols, affluent youth. here they let loose to pope and rap beats a far cry from traditional culture walgreens. ah, with one we can right now. this is only the names that all right. i can hominy enjoy, but i'm not lazy. it's nothing like that. back to the normal like very high, like yeah, quit the golden christmas. i think we have won with sandra here,

men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the censure of a society that still quite conservative. there give us an agency in wendy and knocking. let's meet in mcdonough and from the i can find like some of these and like they want to have a new one tonight. what wonder what, how many miles on this is one i'm on in england. mm hm. and common with filling in a moment. yet who towns, society and laws are changing? in december 2020 parliament decriminalized homosexuality. and at these club young people smoke and drink alcohol. oh, in public spaces it's another story. to combat the

high level of alcoholism in the country, the government banned the sale of alcohol one day a week. now every tuesday is known as dry day. i hello. it was, it was a beer. why do you see the lower is strictly and he had to oh dear. died in baton tuesdays alcohol free day when i can buy there still it's driving ah drive what is driving no l as well now. i think also country. yeah. i why it's like it so ah, another ban smoking in public places in 2004 baton was ahead of its time

legislating on the issue during our visit. there are no smokers on the streets. however, even though the government also ban cigarette sales, many small shopkeepers, still risk selling them under the counter with buyer for this will scan that we have to pay the fine financing. do take on my food clothes issue. yeah. it's dangerous. i. yeah, i swear engine. it's fairly new. many people do like this far reaching legislation has been passed regarding food as well. though it may not always be followed to the letter as we see visiting the large markets in tim pu 3 times a wait, small farmers from the surrounding area come here to sell their spices,

fruit and vegetables. oh, little gannett. of course. there's also plenty of meat for sale, even though officially it's strictly forbidden to kill animals and baton. oh, you mustn't cut in half of italy in there yet when i was about to fall and i thought that my benefits were they nearly him out of it along with meat who turns neighbor to the south supplies the country with fuel and cheap labor in the rapidly expanding capital to improve, most of the construction is carried out by indian workers. almost everything is done by hand and safety standards are often lacks. but the most dangerous construction sites are located outside the city. at an altitude of almost 3000 meters, a colossal building project is changing the face of this mountain. since

1961, thousands of indian workers have been coming every year to work on this road that's destined to cross the country from east to west. despite the magnitude of the task and its dangers, the men were no protected clothing, let alone helmets. they work with what little the company provides arjun is 18 years old, and this is his 1st time on the site visit. i don't you have other shoes? no, no, no other work chance. yeah, the company provides us with some but mine a wreck in this job that i lost while without toxic ta fumes, mountain sickness, no protective gear and no accident insurance. this work poses many dangers, yet there is no shortage of applicants on the phone with poor. if we don't work,

we stop. that's why we come here to work and earn money and they're very verified. otherwise, how else would we be able to leave that i was, i know that they work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, often for 2 months at a time with the lead, we're able to film a typical day on the site at their makeshift camp the workers get up at 7 each morning. oh oh, i'll go wake up. you need to wake up. okay. ram to get up really. i'm with and i will. this is our homes. i bought 25 people right here. i believe. will our data we don't have a problem sleeping here like this. hello blanca phyllis. now we need to go and wash and get ready. we have to go to work with that. is that this is the work is sleep fully dressed?

high in the mountains without heating the temperature in the camp regularly drops below freezing, like the others are gen, leaves on the plains during the rest of the year. so this terrain is also foreign to him. i grew up in, is there any the guy? yeah, we've never seen a place like this before. there are mountains everywhere. gorgeous and cliffs. her very dangerous working environment is. it's cold here. it's snow. yeah. even the rain is freezing and oh yeah. we've been working here for 2 months of dinner. we have 10 days left a year and we return to our villages, governance in gather some work as a counting the days more than others. sinbad is 28 years old. this is the 3rd year he's been on the site. he's in charge of the barrels of tar. ah, what is it that me named? this part of my job is very dangerous. it go that we have to milk the tar and for

that we have to heat it. move away. when you're near the back, you must be vigilant at all times that even think i had out of all that you fall in . you'll die bragg. i'm die under that. despite the risks, sinbad cannot quit. this work allows him to support his wife and 2 children for 6 months of the year. but as long as i have legs to walk, i'll keep working on your national happiness, built with the blood, sweat, and t is of foreign work is happiness that has an ecological cost, but not for baton. it really didn't india these barrows go back to india. any more than now, very bad for the environment. so we have to count them, picked them up and send them back to indiana. we've got him a lot about getting the of his gross national happiness. he's no curable,

but it has produced some tangible results. and is something the state continues to promote to the world as seen with the construction of these conference center dedicated to happiness at a time when the country is opening up to the world. baton is trying to find a way to pursue economic and social progress without sacrificing its cultural and environmental achievement. all the happiness of its people ah to the point, strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. shop referendums, attic facia, that a large construction draw. vladimir putin is trying to salvage his special military

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